I was born in Cleveland the day after the very first MNF game. I fell in love with the 81 Bengals as a 10 year old . Football was so great in the 80s. I will take 1980s USFL over todays football. Joe Namath is the coolest football player ever! What an awesome show. The old AFL was so great. I wish the USFL could have expanded some of it's treans back then.

It started because they wouldn't let blacks play in the NFl once they got done playing college football in the North it's watch The forgotten 4 the four black men the movie who also pave the way for Jackie Robinson in baseball

It a lot different when you have to deal with a group of men who all have almost the same thought prosses. However a woman has a entirely different affect on feelings and you can't judge how a man is going to deal with a woman by using how he deals with his team mates that's as different as night and day.

Long live Mr. Bob Kalsu, I felt that.

Watching the way they pounded Joe with very late hits was really brutal... It seemed there was a goal of being the player that ended his career. They went way too far to injure him....

I'm from Michigan and a Lion's Fan, of course... I've always preferred the NFC & Original NFL Teams and rarely route for the AFC... BUT, Al Davis & the Oakland Raiders were the only exception..!!

Wow,,, INCREDIBLE stories & history..!! I saw more empty seats than sold seats... so the merger worked out well for everyone, Owners, Players & Fans...and TV of course..!!

I'm 62 (born in 62) and became a NFL fan in 72, so after the merger and Superbowl I (66)... I really didn't know very much about the AFL, so these have been WONDERFUL to watch..!! I enjoyed Parts 1 & 2 and I'm moving on to Part 3..!!

Never get tired of watching this documentary - all five episodes! Every time I watch Episode One, I have to laugh at 44:19 when George Blanda says "we threw two or three interceptions in the first half". George, we all loved watching you play, but we all know who threw those interceptions.

This is an excellent series.

Houston Oilers #1

I remember when the Steelers had a black QB. The big question was he smart enough. The bad old days

i was an oiler and George Blanda fan. i was 10 yrs. old

always loved the lions uniforms. and nobody looked better in them than Barry Sanders

Who would put that lying Dan Rather on. What a scumbag

There used to be a lot more white players than there are today. I suppose at that time the black kids didn't have the same opportunities to get into college programs.

54:44 Look at all the empty seats. Times have changed.

I love hearing these stories of the old AFL. Sounds like a lot of fun.

I became a fan of the Denver Broncos in 1965 at the ripe old age of 8 years. And will be a fan of Lamar Hunt for starting the AFL. forever. He was the man with the plan. (of coarse it was years later when i knew of him and what he did.) THANK YOU Mr. HUNT

The colts threw the game. Rosenbloom was a cheapskate and this is the result

Alworth

In the 2nd year of the AFL 1961 a W.R. by the name of Charlie Hennigan of the Houston Oilers set a record for receiving yardage in a single season with 1,746 yds. Hennigan did this in only 14 games. And his record would stand for 34 years! And during that 1961 season he also set a record for yards gained in a single game with 3 games of 200+ yards receiving... THAT RECORD STILL STANDS TODAY!!!

Rip Dawson.

Ernie Ladd was a beast

The AFL also had a different ball. It was intrumental in increasing passing proficiency in the AFL.

WOW!!! Wotta brilliant series of videos. Thanks for the effort. Love my Steelers👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻With love from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺🤝🏻🇺🇸

The guy saying the AFL was a lower quality brand is stupid. Of course they had lower completion percentages and higher INT percentages; if you throw more, those numbers will be higher. In the NFL, they were only throwing 12-15 times a game, and sometimes less. Of course the numbers will look better. Fuckin' DUH, dude. Take a statistics class.

If Belichick would come to CIN for 3 years. . . Oh, damn.

My first team was the 1967 Denver Broncos. I was born in Denver in 1960. In 1968 I also became a Washington Redskins fan. My mom went to school with Sonny Jurgenson. Denver and Washington are still my favorite teams. And Washington will always be the REDSKINS!!!

Beautifully done documentary of the AFL. The NFL would not be nearly as popular without the brashness and boldness of AFL

Good Lord Paul Brown was a jerk. Telling Hank Stram that Len Dawson couldnt play. Proved him wrong. Then later undermining Bill Walsh. Then Walsh defeated Brown's Bengals in 2 Super Bowls. Proved him wrong. Wow.😊

48:20 one of the best tackles in football history

30:17 this story always cracks me up lol Alex Kroll is brilliant in this

I like how the defensive players in the league stood up for Joe Namath, saying that they admired a guy who with old man's knees could compete in the NFL. That's not a media compliment, that's a compliment from the guys on the field. Broadway Joe did more with bad knees than most healthy QBs do in a career.

Cookie Gilchrist : `I don't care what color the taxi is, I just want a taxi!"

Al Davis,,, NUT JOB!

From what I have heard over the years, Paul Brown was a friggin jerk

I am from minn. I am not sure it was a done deal. Anyway the team went to Oakland which is fine with m.e. silver and black pride here For the upcoming season 57 years. Go Antonio pierce and company number one

I watched this often. One of the all time football docs. A great ode to the great AFL. My pops was always an AFL advocate and always rooted for them (except the Raiders 😂- you can guess who his team was). RIP Mr. Abner Haynes

Song at 5:21. Does anyone know who its by?

Man...the way Joe & those guys talked about the Jets winning makes u tear up a little. Im not a Jets fan but that was a huge victory for em

C H I E F S 🏈

I love this documentary; the way football was supposed to be played.

49:03 Jim Brown says it all!

17:36 26:02 I really enjoyed this segment

Pete Rozelle was an awful human being.

This is why the modern NFL focuses more on the AFL/AFC, than the old NFL. Remember the NFL dates back to 1920, however, the modern league only goes back to the merger period, they don't cover anything before the first Super Bowl in January 1967. They cover the AFL back to it's beginning in 1960, but not the old NFL. It's because of the old racialism and white's only policy of the NFL from 1933 until 1946. That started with Washington's original owner and founder George Preston Marshall, however, other owners at the time supported him, they used the great depression and lack of opportunities as an excuse. Interestingly, the modern league now segregates whites to certain positions that the leagues thinks they are "equipped" to play. Times never change.

dan rooney is garbage

So the bengals paul.brown knew down the road his team would be a division rival of the browns.....but doest this video state that their was a ' marathon ' session to determine who the other 2 teams were whom were to.join the afl/ afc? so that must-have been all show. Makes me wonder

As soon as the Jets won the Super Bowl, Rozelle had it in for Namath.